It is the contention of this paper that management development, in any visible, formal sense, is absent from the majority of Chinese family businesses, but that an alternative set of processes produces a high level of managerial talent geared to this particular kind of organization. Seen at the macro level, the effect can be dramatic, resulting for instance in a sustained annual increase in gross national product per capita of 9% over twenty years in Hong Kong, a result found replicated in other nearby Overseas Chinese economies, or Chinese sectors of national economies in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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